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TFS CTP March 2007

I’ve just seen that Microsoft has released the new CTP for Visual Studio Code Name “Orcas”.

The CTP brings lot of new things I want to stand up some of my favorite new TFS features.

Get latest version on Checkout. Now the get latest version is not done automatically when you checkout, this can create conflicts and forces you to use the merge tool, that I must admit it is great but I still being a bit mind closed to work with multiple checkouts on certain file types. So I’m quite happy that now I will be able to configure it.

Annotate: This option is now part of the Power Toys and allows you to see line-by-line who performed the last code change. Very useful to find easily the guilties ;)

Continuous Integration, this is in my opinion the greatest one. I know there are multiple solutions to do it now, but I couldn’t imagine a new version of TFS without native support for this feature. It was requested by too many users.

I started downloading the CTP, I’m very curious to start playing with the rest of stuff.